Baby roosters

[Ol Grey Mare]

Nope. It's just luck of the draw. People talk about most hatches being roughly 50/50 (law of averages), but that's not a guarantee. If you look around the forum, you'll see people bemoaning hatches that were overwhelmingly cockerels.

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Our recent hatch was 5 - 3 were cockerels (they leave for their new home tomorrow, along with our roo)

 

[Amina]

Last year, I hatched a few eggs and bought a few straight-run day olds. Out of ten chicks total, nine were roosters.

Here's hoping for better luck this year!

 

[Dustieburk]

Thank you everyone I learn something everyday.

 

[brwneyedsue]

Here is a question. We live in town and are not allowed to have roosters. I am very worried that of my new baby chicks, 3 of the 5 may be roosters. I don't want to eat them and would love them to be adopted by a farmer. I have twin 5 year old girls and we would visit. Any suggestions? It seems like most people don't want roosters. I'd LOVE them if we lived outside of town. This is my first flock.

 

[keesmom]

Did you get sexed pullets or straight run?

 

[Dustieburk]

My chickens hatched them out .

 

[aart]

Here is a question. We live in town and are not allowed to have roosters. I am very worried that of my new baby chicks, 3 of the 5 may be roosters. I don't want to eat them and would love them to be adopted by a farmer. I have twin 5 year old girls and we would visit. Any suggestions? It seems like most people don't want roosters. I'd LOVE them if we lived outside of town. This is my first flock.

Adopted by a farmer that you can visit them is not likely......to me, and many others, they are food if not needed for propagation.

Even if you live where they're allowed, it's hard to have more than one, so if you're going to hatch eggs you have to deal with the males.
It's a harsh reality of the romanticized 'back yard chicken movement', but a great lesson in the 'where does our food come from'.

You can put a free rooster ad on craigslist or elsewhere and someone will want to eat them...or if it suits you better, don't ask what they will do with them.

 

[eatwhatyougrow]

Adopted by a farmer that you can visit them is not likely......to me, and many others, they are food if not needed for propagation.

Even if you live where they're allowed, it's hard to have more than one, so if you're going to hatch eggs you have to deal with the males.
It's a harsh reality of the romanticized 'back yard chicken movement', but a great lesson in the 'where does our food come from'.

You can put a free rooster ad on craigslist or elsewhere and someone will want to eat them...or if it suits you better, don't ask what they will do with them.

True that......all my kids know that our chicken , we eat comes from our chickens, as does our pork, next year the beef will as well. It is good to know , your kids are not eating food pumped full of things I can't pronounce and would only feed something I was trying to embalm. My two oldest boys hage also learned the art of cleaning ajd processing their food as well, the one boy doesn't process them he dissects them he is my future surgeon. So as art said it is a part of life. I think a lot of people miss out on a great part of the s3lf sufficent side of chickens when they won't process their roos....just my 5 cents...inflation...